Sandra Mackey

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
The US led war-campaign against Iraq has singled out Saddam Hussein as one of the major cause of problems both in Iraq and throughout the world. Journalist Sandra Mackey, a long time reporter on issues in The Middle East, asserts that toppling Saddam Hussein will not cure Iraq of its political ills and could create a conflict more vicious than the Balkan Wars, The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein.

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